of guns. one year ago donald trump rolled back an obama era regulation that was designed to make it more difficult for people with mental health issues to buy a gun. for more on the president s comments, i m joined by geoff bennett at the white house. reporter: the president doesn t seem to think that gun restrictions are the solution to gun violence and that speech part of which you showed the president quoted scripture anden occureraged the country s children to seek help if they feel alone or afraid and as you pointed out, he avoided any issue of gun violence and a reporter asked the president once he was done if he was willing to consider anything in terms of new gun laws, the president didn t respond. and look, the president has often pointed to mental illness as the u the underlying issue but this is a president in which the president s words and actions seemed misaligned because as you pointed out a year ago he evoked the obama era